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Meeting of the Jesuit Social Centres.

The Jesuit Social Centres in Europe have started a new way of collaboration through one-day meetings, twice every year, to discuss on topics of common interest. This time, members of six social centres have met in Madrid, with the support of the Institute for Migration Studies of Comillas Pontifical University. The meeting, held on 22 November, devoted the morning to the analysis of "Hospitality and integration" while during the afternoon we focused on the fears of living together with migrants (racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance). 

Participants came from the Jesuit Social Centres of Brussels (JESC / Avec), Paris (CERAS), Budapest (House of Dialogue), Munich (Institute for Social Development) and Barcelona (Cristianisme y Justicia). Some faculty members of the University joined the meeting as members of Pueblos Unidos, Entreculturas and the Delegate of the Social Apostolate of the Spanish Province, Fr. Alberto Ares. 

The Professors Ms. Mercedes Fernandez (Director of the Institute for Migration Studies) and Mr. Juan Iglesias (Director of the Chair of Forced Displaced People and Refugees) had special presentations of research carried on by the Institute on the respective topics. 

“In a world that is more and more globalized, we need to think together. If the European Union makes decisions for all Europeans, we have to think jointly as Europeans. " expressed Saskia Simon, specialist on Democracy and Citizenship Mobilization of the Belgium Jesuit Social centre “Avec”. Saskia Simon and her colleague Elisabeth Defreyne, an expert on Migration and Gender in the same centre, consider the meeting important because "it gives the opportunity to listen to people coming from different parts of Europe and to know the situation in each country, and how the Jesuit social centres deal with social justice in a broader context ...”.

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